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UNITED STATES PATENT Orrrcn.

GEORGE HENRY MILLIN, DENIS CASEY, AND JOSEPH HENRY MANTION,

OF HULL, CANADA.

MACHINE FOR FILLING MATCH-RACKS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 449,376, dated March31, 1891.

Application filed September 25, 1890. Serial No. 366,156. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, GEORGE HENRY MIL- LEN, DENIS CASEY, and JOSEPHHENRY MAN- TION, all of the city of Hull, in the Province 5 of Quebec,in the Dominion of Canada, have jointly invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Machines for Filling Racks with Match-Splints to beDipped; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full,

[ clear, and exact description of the same, reference being bad to theaccompanyingdraiw ings, in which Figure 1 is aside elevation of ourmachine. Fig. 2 is a top view of the same. Fig. 3 is a I side elevationshowing adjusted position of the splint-box while being filled by handwith splints. Fig. 4 is a side elevation showing position of the splint-box and rack-holder with cover open for insertion of an empty rack andremoval of a filled one. Fig. 5 is a top View of Fig. 4, showing thematch dipping rack in the rack-holder. Fig. 6 is a top view of themachine, the cover of the splint-box open to show the interiorperforations. Fig. 7 is a vertical section 011 linear: on, Fig. 2; and

Fig. 8 is a section on line y y, Fig. 7, enlarged, to show splints inthe box and rack.

Our invention has for its object to rapidly fill or stick match-rackswith splints for the 0 purpose of being dipped, so that one end of thesplints will be in the same plane notwithstanding any slight differencein the length of the splints, whereby on removal of the filled rack thesplints held therein may be uniformly dipped into the igniting compound.

Our invention consists in the construction and combination of certainparts of the machine, as will be hereinafter described, and pointed outin the claims.

1 is a stand supporting the operative parts of the machine.

2 2 are brackets secured to the top of the stand, in which brackets ashaft 3 is journaled, and to said shaft at the iniddleis keyed 5 awindingpulley i, to which is secured one end of a strap 5, and the otherend of the strap is attached to a gravitating weight 6. To near one endof said shaft 3 is secured a winding-pulley 7, to which is secured oneend of a strap 8, and near the opposite end of said shaft 3 is keyed awinding-pulley 0, to which one end of a strap 10 is attached.

11 is a bracket secured to the side of the stand 1, and to said bracketis pivoted a pawl 12, which when required engages a ratchet- 5 5 wheel13, keyed on shaft 3, outside the stand 1, and said shaft 3 is providedwith a crankhandle M for winding pulley 4 against the resistance orgravity of the weight, for the purpose hereinafter set forth, wherebythe straps 8 and 10 will be loosened, said straps winding on theirrespective pulleys in a contrary direction to the strap 5 on pulley 4t.

15 is a box to contain the match-splints, said box having arms 16 16extending from one end, and shaft 3 passes loosely through the outerends of said arms, whereby said box, pivoted by said armsto the shaft,maybe overturned from a horizontal position on one side of the shaft toa horizontal position on the opposite side of the shaft, as shown indotted lines in Fig. 1, for reversing the box bottom or top uppermost.Fol-overturning or reversingthe splint-box by hand,it is provided withhandles 18 18.

The top of the splint-box is provided with a hinged door 19, which issecurely fastened when closed by a sliding bolt 20, which hasinclined-plane notches which engage with the heads of studs 22, securedto one side of the box, or other suitable fastening may be provided toretain the door closed. The bottom of the splint-box has a perforatedportion 23 at the end which is lowermost when the splintbox is in aninclined position, as seen in Fig. The splints are placed in thesplint-box in regular order by hand, the ends against the bottom. Thesplint-box is held in said inclined position by a prop 27.

The sides of the splint-box are provided 0 with longitudinal slots 24 21, and within the box is a presser bar or follower 25, the ends of whichproject through the slots 24:, and to the ends of the follower areattached the ends of the straps 8 and 10, previously mentioned, so thatby gravitation of weight 6 shaft 3 will be rotated and the straps 8 10Wind on the pulleys 7 0, thus drawing the follower toward the perforatedportion of the splint-box and maintaining a pressure on the splints toI00 prevent them falling into disorder when standing erect by the boxbeing horizontal. The presser-bar or follower is held stationary againstthe resistance of the gravitating weight 6, while being filled withsplints, by a knob 21 on the follower passing through a hole in the endof the box and held by a hook 26, pivoted to the outside of the box toengage the knob.

28 is a wiper-wheel journaled to the end of frame 1, and has contactwith a roller 29, journaled to the end of the splint-box and projectingover the wiper-wheel to jolt said box and cause the match-splintstherein to fall through the perforations and supply the match-rack withsplints in the manner now to be described.

The perforated portion of the splint-box is inclosed by an exteriorrack-holder 30, provided with a hinged door 31, which is locked toconfine the rack placed in the holder, said locking being effected inthe present instance by a bar 32, secured to the door and havingabifurcated projecting end to receive in terveningly a locking-bar 33,pivoted at one end to brackets 34, secured to the box,and the other endis pintled to the eccentric heel of a handle 35, which eccentric portionbears upon bar to keep the door tightly closed. \Vhen the handle isthrown back to lie against the splintbox, as seen in Fig. 4, the handlecarries with it the locking-bar 33, and door 31 may then be raised oropened to remove the filled rack and replace it by an empty one, theposition of the splint-box being then as shown in dotted lines in Fig. land full lines in Fig. at. After the empty match-rack 36 is inserted inthe W rack-holder 30, as shown in Fig. 5, and door 31 closed and locked,the splint-box is then endwise overturned or returned to the positionshown in Figs. 1 and 2. The ratchetwheel 13 is then rotated a notchagainst the resistance or gravity of the weight 6, and pawl 12 engagedwith the ratchet-wheel to loosen or remove the tension on the straps 8and 10, as shown in Fig. 7, and release the pressure of the follower onthe splints and thereby diminish the frictional contact of the splintswith one another. The wiper-wheel is then rotated to shake or jolt thesplint-box and cause some of the splints to fall through theperforations into the corresponding apertures in the match-rack 36,whichfits snugly within its holder 30, which covers the perforated portion ofthe splint bOX. The splints fall through the perforations in thesplint-box into perforations in the rack, which has a stationary portion41 and a movable portion 43, intervened by awedge 44, to shift saidportion to hold the splints in the perforations when the wedge istightened. The rack may then be removed from the machine and the splintsheld in the rack dipped into an igniting-compound in any convenientmanner.

Ve claim as our invention- 1. In a match-rack-filling machine, asplintbox 15, hinged at one end to a supportingframe 1, and having'adoor 19 and a bottom provided with rows of holes 2, an exteriorrack-holder 30, having a door 31 and a presser bar or follower 25 withinthe splint-box, whereby the splints in the splint-box are trans ferredthrough the holes in the bottom to the ln atch-rack when the splint-boxis overturned, as set forth.

2. The combination, with a supportingframe having a shaft 3, carrying apulley 4, winding and unwinding a strap 5, suspending a gravitatingweight- (3, of the splint-box 15, sleeved at one end on said shaft toturn over the pulley, and having a perforated bottom 23, and exteriorrack-holder 30, covering said perforations, a follower 25,extendingthrough slots in the splint-box, straps 8 and 10, attached tothe ends of the followers, and pulleys of said shaft winding the strapsto automatically maintain a constant tension on the follower, and a pawland ratchet 12 13, to hold the shaft and loosen the tension of thestraps when the shaft is reversed, as set forth, for thepurposedescribed.

3. The combination,. .with the splint-box 15, having an exteriorrack-holder and provided with a door 31, having abifurcated bar 32extending therefrom, of the locking-bar 33, pintled at one end tobrackets 31 outside said box, and the opposite end hinged to theeccentric end of a handle 35, whereby the eccentric end of the handlepresses down and locks the door, as set forth.

GEORGE HENRY MILLEN. DENIS CASEY. JOSEPH HENRY MANTIOL.

Witnesses:

JOHN GRIsT, H. H. HORSEY.

